Moving away from WS/ES/AS, going towards server/desktop model (not
written in stone yet).  The installation key will be used to determine
which packages to install.  For the beta, you can just cancel this
window.

-Brad

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 14:20 -0400, Post, Mark K wrote:
> This arrived in my inbox today, for the Red Hat fans.  As with SLES10,
> there is only a 64-bit version for the mainframe.
>
>
> Mark Post
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:56:43 -0400
> From: Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RHEL5 beta1 showing up...
>
> Looks like RedHat has posted RHEL5 beta1 (or maybe a pre-beta1?) to
> their ftp site:
>
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/RHEL5-Beta1
>
> use the mirrors:
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/RHEL5-Beta1
> ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/RHEL5-Beta1/
> .... (many redhat mirrors should have it now)
>
> My early observations (I downloaded it last night):
>
>   -DVD ISOs!  yeah!
>
>   -No WS, ES, AS.  There's only client and server directories.  Not sure
>
> if this is just during beta testing or if RedHat is effectively dropping
>
> the ES release (if I remember right, ES only existed for i386 and ppc
> anyway, none of the 64-bit archs had it)
>
>   -kernel-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5, httpd-2.2.3-4, php-5.1.4-8.1,
> gnome-desktop-2.15.4, kdebase-3.5.4-0.pre1.fc6, xen-3.0.2-23,
> firefox-1.5.0.5-8 are the versions included.  That doesn't mean it won't
>
> change by General Release though...
>
>   -Anaconda asks for an install key during installation (!!!???).  Not
> sure if this is a beta thing or will be in General Release also.
>
>
> Congrats the RHEL developers, looking forward to final release.
>
> Jay
>
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